Tom Chaplin: 'Death was coming to say hello, I could have easily copped it'

He told Britain's The Sun newspaper that he was playing "Russian roulette" with his life and was really unwell:

"Death was coming to say hello. I could easily have copped it. It's Russian roulette. When you're going on binges that last four or five days, with no sleep and crazy amounts of drugs - and you're also on your own. I pushed my family right to the edge, to the point where they were kind of saying their goodbyes."

Chaplin, who released a debut solo album in 2016 entitled 'The Wave', added: "There were periods of my life during the Keane days, two or three years, where I didn't touch coke but I was doing other things. I was doing party drugs and was the life and soul. But as soon as I went back to coke - particularly that drug - it seemed to have a very isolating, self-destructive hold on me."